Paul E Cox - Sweet Pea from Tennessee Lyrics

She was working as a waitress at a bowling alley bar
Said she was going to Hollywood gonna be a shooting star
Drove a candy apple red drop top Cadillac Coupe Deville
Buys her lingerie online and little blue viagra pills
Got a tattoo of a snake that crawls from her neck down to her knees
She'll pour you a shot of jack from her purse brother if you please

She drives around with a cigarette hanging down from her red lips
A cold six pack of beer on the floor and bag of potato chips
She can cuss like any sailor who has crawled home from the sea
Some women say they've even seen her stand right up an pee

But she's one hundred proof genuine lady to me
She's a diamond in the rough brother I guess you can't see
May be a little crazy but she takes good care of me
She's my bowling alley waitress she's my sweet pea from Tennessee

She might wear too much makeup and her perfume is pretty cheap
The polish is chipping off her nails but beauty's only skin deep
Some people say she talks too much but I don't give a damn
I like the way she calls my name and sings stand by your man

You might think I'm blind in one eye and can't see out of the other
Searched this whole wide world and found one just like my mother
You'll see her howling at the moon some Friday night
Comes dragging in like she just won the latest catfight
She still cries at the movies when someone else gets hurt
Lays her head on my shoulder smears her lipstick all over my
Favorite Ray Wylie Hubbard T-shirt

But she's one hundred proof genuine lady to me
She's a diamond in the rough brother I guess you can't see
May be a little crazy but she takes good care of me
She's my bowling alley waitress she's my sweet pea from Tennessee